MIXED EFFECTS MODELS FOR COMPLEX DATA by Lang Wu, Richard L. Smith, Valerie Isham ( 9781420074024 )

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MIXED EFFECTS MODELS FOR COMPLEX DATA

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Lang Wu, Richard L. Smith, Valerie Isham

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Pub. date:

11 November, 2009

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Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability v. 113

Pages:

431

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Reviews incomplete data problems in mixed-effects models for longitudinal studies and discusses various approaches, including some commonly used simple methods, EM algorithms, and multiple imputation methods. This work also covers other models for longitudinal data, such as marginal models with missing values.

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Although standard mixed effects models are useful in a range of studies, other approaches must often be used in correlation with them when studying complex or incomplete data. Mixed Effects Models for Complex Data discusses commonly used mixed effects models and presents appropriate approaches to address dropouts, missing data, measurement errors, censoring, and outliers. For each class of mixed effects model, the author reviews the corresponding class of regression model for cross-sectional data. An overview of general models and methods, along with motivating examples After presenting real data examples and outlining general approaches to the analysis of longitudinal/clustered data and incomplete data, the book introduces linear mixed effects (LME) models, generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs), nonlinear mixed effects (NLME) models, and semiparametric and nonparametric mixed effects models. It also includes general approaches for the analysis of complex data with missing values, measurement errors, censoring, and outliers.Self-contained coverage of specific topics Subsequent chapters delve more deeply into missing data problems, covariate measurement errors, and censored responses in mixed effects models. Focusing on incomplete data, the book also covers survival and frailty models, joint models of survival and longitudinal data, robust methods for mixed effects models, marginal generalized estimating equation (GEE) models for longitudinal or clustered data, and Bayesian methods for mixed effects models. Background material In the appendix, the author provides background information, such as likelihood theory, the Gibbs sampler, rejection and importance sampling methods, numerical integration methods, optimization methods, bootstrap, and matrix algebra. Failure to properly address missing data, measurement errors, and other issues in statistical analyses can lead to severely biased or misleading results. This book explores the biases that arise when naive methods are used and shows which approaches should be used to achieve accurate results in longitudinal data analysis.

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22 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables

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